The Itinerary Wala

Flight-Time Map

How far can you get from Dubai?

Measured from Dubai and Abu Dhabi: 21 of the 178 countries listed here are within four hours' flying, and 38 more within six. 52 of those 59 have a direct flight from Dubai.

Flying from
How long a flight?
Map centred on Dubai with rings at two, four, six and eight hours' flying time, and a dot for each country we have guides for within eight hours. 2h 4h 6h 8h Bahrain: about 1h 15m Oman: about 1h 15m to Muscat Qatar: about 1h 15m to Doha Kuwait: about 1h 45m to Kuwait City Saudi Arabia: about 1h 45m to Riyadh Turkmenistan: about 2h 30m to Ashgabat Armenia: about 3h to Yerevan Azerbaijan: about 3h to Baku Pakistan: about 3h to Islamabad Tajikistan: about 3h to Dushanbe Djibouti: about 3h 15m to Djibouti City Georgia: about 3h 15m to Tbilisi Israel: about 3h 15m to Tel Aviv Jordan: about 3h 15m to Amman Lebanon: about 3h 15m to Beirut Cyprus: about 3h 30m to Larnaca India: about 3h 30m to Delhi Uzbekistan: about 3h 30m to Tashkent Egypt: about 3h 45m to Cairo Ethiopia: about 3h 45m to Addis Ababa Kyrgyzstan: about 4h to Bishkek Kazakhstan: about 4h 15m to Almaty Maldives: about 4h 30m to Malé Nepal: about 4h 30m to Kathmandu Turkey: about 4h 30m to Istanbul Greece: about 4h 45m to Athens Moldova: about 4h 45m to Chișinău Seychelles: about 4h 45m to Mahé Sri Lanka: about 4h 45m to Colombo Bangladesh: about 5h to Dhaka Bhutan: about 5h to Paro Bulgaria: about 5h to Sofia Kenya: about 5h to Nairobi Romania: about 5h to Bucharest Albania: about 5h 15m to Tirana Kosovo: about 5h 15m to Pristina, no direct flight North Macedonia: about 5h 15m to Skopje, no direct flight Russia: about 5h 15m to Moscow Uganda: about 5h 15m to Entebbe Belarus: about 5h 30m to Minsk Bosnia and Herzegovina: about 5h 30m to Sarajevo Montenegro: about 5h 30m to Podgorica, no direct flight Serbia: about 5h 30m to Belgrade Tanzania: about 5h 30m to Dar es Salaam Croatia: about 5h 45m to Zagreb Hungary: about 5h 45m to Budapest Lithuania: about 5h 45m to Vilnius Malta: about 5h 45m Poland: about 5h 45m to Warsaw Rwanda: about 5h 45m to Kigali Slovakia: about 5h 45m to Bratislava, no direct flight Austria: about 6h to Vienna Burundi: about 6h to Bujumbura, no direct flight Comoros: about 6h to Moroni, no direct flight Italy: about 6h to Rome Latvia: about 6h to Riga San Marino: about 6h to Rimini, no direct flight Slovenia: about 6h to Ljubljana Vatican City: about 6h to Rome Czech Republic: about 6h 15m to Prague Estonia: about 6h 15m to Tallinn, no direct flight Finland: about 6h 15m to Helsinki Tunisia: about 6h 15m to Tunis Liechtenstein: about 6h 30m to Zurich Monaco: about 6h 30m to Nice Sweden: about 6h 30m to Stockholm Switzerland: about 6h 30m to Zurich Denmark: about 6h 45m to Copenhagen Germany: about 6h 45m to Frankfurt Laos: about 6h 45m to Vientiane, no direct flight Luxembourg: about 6h 45m, no direct flight Madagascar: about 6h 45m to Antananarivo Malawi: about 6h 45m to Lilongwe, no direct flight Thailand: about 6h 45m to Bangkok Algeria: about 7h to Algiers Andorra: about 7h to Barcelona Belgium: about 7h to Brussels Mauritius: about 7h Mongolia: about 7h to Ulaanbaatar, no direct flight Netherlands: about 7h to Amsterdam Norway: about 7h to Oslo Vietnam: about 7h to Hanoi Cambodia: about 7h 15m to Phnom Penh, no direct flight France: about 7h 15m to Paris Zambia: about 7h 15m to Lusaka Cameroon: about 7h 30m to Douala, no direct flight Equatorial Guinea: about 7h 30m to Malabo, no direct flight Malaysia: about 7h 30m to Kuala Lumpur Republic of the Congo: about 7h 30m to Brazzaville, no direct flight United Kingdom: about 7h 30m to London Zimbabwe: about 7h 30m to Harare Gabon: about 7h 45m to Libreville, no direct flight Spain: about 7h 45m to Madrid Angola: about 8h to Luanda, no direct flight Benin: about 8h to Cotonou, no direct flight China: about 8h to Beijing Hong Kong: about 8h Ireland: about 8h to Dublin Nigeria: about 8h to Lagos São Tomé and Príncipe: about 8h to São Tomé, no direct flight Singapore: about 8h
Direct flight No direct flight Centred on Dubai. Abu Dhabi is 120 km away, less than a dot's width at this scale.

Under 2 hours 5

2 to 4 hours 16

4 to 6 hours 38

6 to 8 hours 42

Over 8 hours 77

How these numbers are made

  • The flying time is an estimate, from distance. It is the great-circle distance between the two airports, turned into time by a rule checked against the timetables of well-known routes from Dubai. It lands within about half an hour of the schedule up to eight hours, and is rounded to the nearest quarter hour because anything finer would be false precision. The same flight is often forty minutes quicker one way than the other, because of the wind.
  • It is the time in the air, not door to door. Add getting to the airport, three hours before an international flight, and the other end. A two-hour flight is most of a day.
  • "Direct" is read, not estimated — from the airlines listed on the Dubai and Abu Dhabi airport pages on 9 November 2026. Routes marked suspended, resuming or not yet started are not counted. Direct means one flight with no change of plane; a few of them stop on the way, which adds time to the figure shown. Without a direct flight, plan on one connection at least.
  • One airport per country. The time is to the main international airport — Tbilisi for Georgia, Delhi for India — so a trip that starts in Goa or Batumi will differ. Airport positions are from OurAirports.
  • 22 countries we write about are not on it, because we have not settled which airport a traveller would fly into: Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Mali, Myanmar, Niger, North Korea, Palestine, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela, Yemen.